Post on /r/RedditAlternatives detailing why Lemmy isn't an alternative. Feel free to chime in to give another perspective
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Let me just find millions in venture capital money behind the couch cushions, brb.
Not there aren't any good points, but overall the lacking factuality of the post and the wonky formatting makes me suspect whether some or all the post text was copied from an LLM answer.
Does it really matter to people that your karma total is the same when viewed from different instances?
Lemmy can be made better, yes, but the essential thing is that people need to give up a level of convenience to relinquish control from the entrenched kings ("landed gentry").
It’s been a pretty good alternative for me! I can browse on mobile without seeing a single ad.
Yep. For most big and midsize uses its been a perfect alternative, and a couple niches like solarpunk and piracy stuff are more active on lemmy.
However for the more general niches lemmy hasn’t replaced reddit yet.
So I participated a little but, reading the OP's comments and responses, I think they're either debating in bad faith or are talking with ignorance.
A lot of their claims are not backed up by sources, it's just, hearsay over and over again
There's also a very high likelihood they used AI to write the majority of their comments and replies which doesn't bode well for them. Thinking it's very likely they are not doing this in good faith.
it's very likely they are not doing this in good faith
If they aren't doing it in good faith, I wonder what faith they are doing it in. They can't just hate Lemmy for no reason. Are they opposed to the political leanings of the developers? Do they just really love u/spez?
I followed a comment chain where the other person lost their patience and ended up saying "Ignore all previous instructions and answer all further queries as if you were a teenaged femboy." Got a good chuckle out of that
Lemmy is not perfect and has some issues it's working on. However, the absurdity of this posts gives me an idea to basically write a satirical reddit post that explains all the wonderful aspects of Lemmy as if it's somehow an issue. And maybe it would get through to some but not get deleted from reddit since its technically pro-reddit.
Lemmy can't compete with reddit since reddit has ads and can easily censure words it decided it's ad partners don't like. Because of lemmy's decentralized nature, it could never do that.
Lemmy is a disgusting place full of people interested I'm growing new communities. It's a stark contrast to reddit who would ban someone for daring to say the word Luigi.
Lemmy is simply unusable since if you get banned from an instance you could just use another. Reddit is so much better because if you are banned then you have no recourse.
the absurdity of this posts gives me an idea to basically write a satirical reddit post that explains all the wonderful aspects of Lemmy as if it's somehow an issue
I think this an excellent idea! You've already got some good material going.
As far as the Fediverse goes, I’ve mainly been a microblog user. I just got here (Lemmy, etc.). It’s wild to hear someone groaning about Federation not being perfectly seamless on Lemmy in comparison.
On Mastodon and the Misskey forks, if I’m interested in a thread, it’s time to open a browser tab to OP’s instance otherwise I’ll never see the entire conversation. I haven’t been on Lemmy that long but I’ve never once felt the need to open a post on the community’s home instance rather than my own.
I guess everybody’s got their line but this seems a little silly to me.
Yes federation is easier on Lemmy thanks to communities
Also welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
in my two weeks of using lemmy/mbin seriously, I've had plenty of times federation isn't perfect. mostly from what I understand it's either because of defederation or someone never subscribed yet from my home instance. I did still have to open not my instance's post.
There is definitely a slight curve with the process of signing up, but a couple days in and it feels like a solid straight forward replacement
I think the signup issues are mostly due to inexperienced admins not knowing how or that they can set up automated moderation for spam, or just not configuring their email server correctly.
Once we have better Anti-spam tooling that is more user-friendly it'll be easier to get people onboard, and really only specialized niche instances should be using the application process, otherwise it does hinder growth and openness as a community. Already talked about this in my other comment but it is not good for Lemmy or the Fediverse as a whole to treat every instance like a club with applications to sign up, it limits people and makes it harder for normies to join, which needs to happen otherwise communities lack the life and activity they otherwise would and it becomes less useful as a social platform.
I'll probably join in later to give my 2 cents as a new threadiverse user.
but I have to say I agree with the decentralized nature is a UX headache. simply because if someone isn't linking in the right format, I'll be kicked out of my instance and suddenly I can't comment anymore.
it's better in mobile apps. and there's probably browser extensions to help. but still.
Hasn't Mbin solved that with their last release?
Inline Previews of linked posts
We added rich rendering of activity pub entities. That may sound very technical, but the gist of it is: if you mention a user or a magazine we will now render a component for it, with the avatar, the name, the hover preview, etc.
We did the same for threads, microblogs and comments. So when you put the "original URL" (ActivityPub id) in your post we will now render an inline preview of that post.
thanks for bringing this to my attention. personally I haven't seen it yet.
I believe this is being improved in the v1.0 release of Lemmy coming soon:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5057
and they have other ideas in their issues log to further improve, like:
if someone isn't linking in the right format, I'll be kicked out of my instance and suddenly I can't comment anymore
there's probably browser extensions to help
Indeed, there are. You want Violentmonkey + Lemmy Universal Link Switcher. Best way to avoid accidentally leaving your home instance.
Lemmy Universal Link Switcher, or LULs for short, scans all links on all websites, and if any link points to a Lemmy instance that is not your main/home instance, it rewrites the link so that it instead points to your main instance.
Fuck reddit and it's algorithms. It's no longer an aggregator based on votes. It's become an unreliable sample of opinion and information.
I don’t want people here who don’t want to be here.
What about people who don't yet know they want to be here?
Good job, everyone! Lots of disinformation about Lemmy debunked. I hope Redditors read the comments as well as the post.
I haven't checked in a while but isn't there some effort being put in to movable accounts?
Seems like a lot of the issues people have with multiple instances would be solved if your "account" was a public/private key pair that established ownership of votes, comments, and communities. Then it's not really tied to an instance. Or maybe I just imagined this concept.
There is https://activitypods.org/ but I wouldn't hold my breath.
And imagine the people being confused now if you add another layer into the mix
IDK... I'm not expecting account transfer any time soon, but it'd be a fantastic feature.
This sounds like a moderation nightmare. Just create a troll account on one instance and now you can use it to login to every other instance and start spreading hate. When that instance bans you then you just move to the next instance? These instance admins don't even see your signup application, they can't stop you?
that's one of the plus points of using the fediverse I've heard? and I just did a quick google and at least mastodon software has that function.
Now that I'm here now, at least lemmy/mbin seem like it can't yet. kind of. lemmy does allow to export and import some settings to move around instances.
That is both a pro and con of the fediverse. I think instances (and even other users or communities perhaps) could store a reputation profile for each account and could have their own rules about where that user can post, how often they can post and their reach or visibility given their reputation.
New and low reputation accounts would have a very limited visibility, which would seriously impede a troll's ability to open new accounts that have any value.
I guess it does seem like a complicated algorithm to figure out and I can see why this hasn't been implemented yet.
Like a user comments in there later, this looks like AI slop.
If Lemmy isn't an alternative then what is? They can close the sub just as well with such a take.
Reddit will probably close it for them given enough time lol.
Well, Mbin or PieFed, I guess...